Friday, 19 December 2008

I installed the December cumulative update today and the configuration wizard failed with “The B2B upgrader timer job failed.” in the diagnostics log file.

Tried loads of things, including running the configuration routine from the command line using psconfig and also stopping the upgrade job and restarting using stsadm -o setproperty -pn command-line-upgrade-running -pv No (this worked for me in the past when the configuration job failed).

It suggests to remove the WSS Help service from Operations in Central Administration before running the configuration wizard. I decided to ignore the bit about not needing to run psconfig because it tends to log better results during a problem, so ran the following command after stopping the Help service: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force

I then ran the normal config wizard to make sure and restarted the WSS Help service in Central Admin....

Monday, 16 June 2008

There appears to be a bug in MOSS where the Created By and Last Modified By options do not return any results in the Advanced Search page. It appears that these fields only show results when indexing SPS 2003 content! Please have a look at the link below:

It appears that when you do a search on the Author column, it takes the 'Author' document property from the Office application first - and if it's blank (or is not an office document like a PDF or SharePoint list item) - it takes the Created By property in SharePoint.

Friday, 13 June 2008

Now, obviously I would not recommend this as best practice, but I was asked if I could configure the default security option in the ISA 2006 logon form to Private Computer instead of Public (despite venting reluctance) to make it easier for users to logon and use persistent cookies to gain access to Office applications from SharePoint without being prompted to sign in again.

Thursday, 15 May 2008

This isn't the most advanced backup script you will ever see, but a) it works as a batch file so it is easy to modify and deploy, and b) it backs up more than the OOB tools do on their own, as follows:

- Deletes and recreates the folder structure for the backup target share- Backs up site collections using stsadm (you will need to add the site collections that you wish to backup)- Performs a farm backup using stsadm- Copies the 12 hive across- Performs an IIS metabase backup and copies the inetpub folder across- Copies the Global Assembly Cache

For it to work, you will need to create a share on your backup server called "Backup" with the following permissions:

Friday, 9 May 2008

The hotfix to enable new My Sites to be created with English (United Kingdom) regional settings has been published from KB article 942819 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942819).

Install the fix and set the regional settings of the My Site Host site collection (i.e., the root site of your My Site Web Application) to UK. Any new personal site created will inherit these regional settings.